Great Throughts Treasury

"Those who make religion their god, will not have God for their religion."

"All religion is in the change from He to Thou. It is a mere abstraction as long as it is He. Only with the Thou we know God."

"Whether or not the philosophers care to admit that we have a soul, it seems obvious that we are equipped with something or other which generates dreams and ideals, and which sets up values."

"I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. "

"In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude. "

"The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works."

"It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature."

"There should be a solemn pause before we rush to judgment."

"When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer."